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Overview
Four Edwardian children find a strange egg in their newly-arrived Persian carpet. It hatches into a Phoenix bird that grants wishes and also transforms the rug into a magic carpet, which takes them on a series of adventures all over the world and at home. A truncated edit of the three-hour miniseries for the home video market.
Director
Michael Kerrigan
Production
BBC Worldwide
Cast
Miriam Margolyes
Cook
Lesley Dunlop
Eliza
I
Ivan Berry
Robert
Christopher Biggins
Mr. Tonks
B
Ben Simpson
Cyril
C
Charlotte Chinn
Jane
Jessica Fox
Anthea
Jean Alexander
Lily
David Suchet
The Phoenix (voice)
F
Francis Wright
The Psammead (voice)
